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Rhodochrosite & Bikitaite

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Description
Locality: 
Foote Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 7.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a larger specimen with several fairly large, beautiful pink rhombs of rhodochrosite on fluorapatite with a scattering of etched blades of bikitaite. A classic and desirable sample from the Foote Mine. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Bikitaite

Formula: 
LiAlSi2O6·H2O
Strunz: 
9.GD.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic There is also a Triclinic polytype.
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Nolan property, Bikita Area, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

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